FUN QUIRKY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS!
July 11th 2008 05:23
Here are some questions and answers that should provide you with a few moments of amusing escapism! WARNING!! Some answers might shock you! I bet I'm not the only one who is glad certain practices are no longer allowed!
Q: What do bullet proof vests, laser printers, a windshield wiper and a fire escape all have in common?
A: They were all invented by women!!
Q: What was the original colour of Coca Cola?
A: Green!!
Q: What money printed every day far exceeds the output of the American Federal Treasury?
A: Monopoly money!
Q: Who were the first couple seen in bed together on TV?
A: Fred and Wilma Flintsone! (cartoon characters)
Q: How was the phrase, "rule of thumb" originated?
A: In the 15th century a law was passed that no man could beat his wife with a rod no thicker than his thumb!!
Q: How did the game of golf get its name?
A: When the game was first invented, it was decided it was inappropriate for women to play such a sport, hence, "Gentlemen Only: Ladies Forbidden!"
Q: Who can read smaller print, men or women?
A: Men!
Q: What was the first novel ever written on a typewriter?
A: Tom Sawyer!!
Q: Where does the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight", come from?
A: Shakespearian days (1600s), when mattresses were created by securing a rope net to the bed base, and tying it to the edges, the tighter it was stretched, the firmer the bed rest!!
Q: What is the only natural food stuff that does not spoil?
A: Honey!
Q: Who can hear better, men or women?
A: Women!
Q: Where does the term "honeymoon" come from?
A: Ancient Babylonia (4,000 years ago) a wedding practise involved the father of the bride supplying the groom for a month with all the mead (a honey based beer) he could drink! Since the calendar months were based upon the waxing and waning of the moon, eventually the period after the wedding came to be known as, the honey-moon!!
(Lucky it didn't become known as honey-headache!)
Image Credits:
Green Question Button and Small Yellow Smiley Face: Wikipedia Commons.
Red Grimace Face and Orange skewed Smiley Face: Mountain Fog.
Q: What do bullet proof vests, laser printers, a windshield wiper and a fire escape all have in common?
A: They were all invented by women!!
Q: What was the original colour of Coca Cola?
A: Green!!
Q: What money printed every day far exceeds the output of the American Federal Treasury?
A: Monopoly money!
Q: Who were the first couple seen in bed together on TV?
A: Fred and Wilma Flintsone! (cartoon characters)
Q: How was the phrase, "rule of thumb" originated?
A: In the 15th century a law was passed that no man could beat his wife with a rod no thicker than his thumb!!
Q: How did the game of golf get its name?
A: When the game was first invented, it was decided it was inappropriate for women to play such a sport, hence, "Gentlemen Only: Ladies Forbidden!"
Q: Who can read smaller print, men or women?
A: Men!
Q: What was the first novel ever written on a typewriter?
A: Tom Sawyer!!
Q: Where does the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight", come from?
A: Shakespearian days (1600s), when mattresses were created by securing a rope net to the bed base, and tying it to the edges, the tighter it was stretched, the firmer the bed rest!!
Q: What is the only natural food stuff that does not spoil?
A: Honey!
Q: Who can hear better, men or women?
A: Women!
Q: Where does the term "honeymoon" come from?
A: Ancient Babylonia (4,000 years ago) a wedding practise involved the father of the bride supplying the groom for a month with all the mead (a honey based beer) he could drink! Since the calendar months were based upon the waxing and waning of the moon, eventually the period after the wedding came to be known as, the honey-moon!!
(Lucky it didn't become known as honey-headache!)
Image Credits:
Green Question Button and Small Yellow Smiley Face: Wikipedia Commons.
Red Grimace Face and Orange skewed Smiley Face: Mountain Fog.
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Comment by Louie
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I personally think they should change the name for Golf, mind you it just gives me another reason not to play the silly sport.....
wish I was on my A game to think up some good names, maye I need you to wave the Queen Wand my way...
Comment by RubySoho
Music Zone
Thought Zone
Go the women inventors!
GOLF, hahaha.
Comment by Mountain Fog
Infognito
I am rather flat at the moment.. so no fount of satire here I am afraid...
I have just finished reading a large article in an august, yet ubiquitous, publication, written by a certain close family member and, yet again, another tela of fantasy has been spun, albeit inventively and entertainingly; an ego embroidery, the pattern finished like lace work, the holes being the omissions, the design a deception.
such is such..
cheers
fog
Comment by Mountain Fog
Infognito
glad to help entertain you.
I should learn from this experience, if I ever wish to earn more than $20- per year writing on this site; abandon my political rants, abandon my spiritual insights and journal, abandon my exposes, abandon my prose and poetry...
...and just do lists and quizzes!
thank you for pointing me in the right direction!
I will be forever in emotional debt and intellectual debit.
cheers
fog
Comment by tlcorbin
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Comment by Mountain Fog
Infognito
but probably my view of myself is a little more critical and derogatory...
as for these witty questions and answers... thye are not of my own mental loins, but of an unknown, sent via the email...
Well, I did select and juxtapose the ones I felt appropriate, and two of the smiley faces are my own fabulously artistic (read autistic) creations!
cheers
fog
Comment by Johnny Come Lately
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Comment by Mountain Fog
Infognito
yeeeaaah baby! ...green coke... might work on Saint Pat's day though!
cheers
fog
Comment by postmoderncritic
Postmodern Critic
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Comment by Mountain Fog
Infognito
you can say that again!!!
My blog is a cash free zone!!
Tanx for the compliment too!
cheers
fog